{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024/rule-56.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/1155",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-tribunal-procedure-rules-2024",
  "path": "rule/56",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Notice of final hearing",
  "text": "(1) The Tribunal must give the parties not less than 14 days’ notice of the date of a final hearing.\n(2) Notice of a final hearing may be given before the date that the response is to be presented under rule 17(1) (response), or a reply is to be presented under rule 26(1) (replying to an employer’s contract claim) provided the date of the hearing is no sooner than 14 days after the date on which the response or reply is to be presented to the Tribunal in accordance with each of those rules.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 56 in force at 6.1.2025 immediately after S.I. 2024/1156 comes into force, see rule 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1155/rule/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:24:28.531903+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}